Maud Newton

About Maud Newton

Maud Newton is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, the New York Times Book Review, Narrative Magazine, Granta, Tin House, The Awl, and many other publications. She is writing a book for Random House about the science and superstition of ancestry.

We tend now to think of Hollywood’s hackneyed, would-be blockbusters as a new phenomenon, one borne of desperation, unprecedented cynicism and the rise of narrative television. But Raymond Chandler’s wonderful 1945 essay-screed “Writers in Hollywood” reminds us that the … Read more